Tiffany Green and Tod G. Hamilton Maternal Educational Attainment and Infant Mortality in the United States: Does the Gradient Vary by Race and Nativity? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download publicly available data files. No license or contract was required. from http://www.nber.org/data/linked-birth-infant-death-data-vital-statistics-data.html linkco1998us_den.dta.zip linkco1999us_den.dta.zip linkco2000us_den.dta.zip linkco2001us_den.dta.zip linkco2002us_den.dta.zip ` These files appear under Births heading, with den dta designation (here, den stands for denominator). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Analytic Data File: make_AB_Infant_Mortality_allyears.dta (generated by make_ABjuly2018.do, see below) Number of Observations: 17,520,140 VARIABLES: storage display variable name type format variable label ------------------------------------------------------------ matchs byte %8.0g Match Status biryr int %8.0g Year of Birth brstate byte %8.0g Expanded State of Residence - NCHS Codes - Birth ormoth byte %8.0g Hispanic Origin of Mother mrace3 byte %8.0g Race of Mother Recode meduc6 byte %8.0g Education of Mother Recode mplbirr byte %8.0g Place of Birth of Mother Recode aged int %8.0g Age at Death in Days recwt double %10.0g Record Weight momid float %9.0g Maternal Identification number infantdeath byte %8.0g Infant Mortality neodeath byte %8.0g Neonatal Mortality postneodeath byte %8.0g Postneonatal Mortality cmale byte %8.0g Child Male cfirst byte %8.0g First Birth plive byte %8.0g Previous live births nobirths byte %8.0g Category for number of prior births overall csingle byte %8.0g Singleton Birth cgest byte %8.0g Gestational Age pbirth byte %8.0g Preterm birth dmcare byte %8.0g Month Initiated dmfirst byte %8.0g Initiated Care during 1st Trimester dmtri byte %8.0g Trimester of Care Initiation dmsmo byte %8.0g Smoked xmwhite byte %8.0g NH White xmblack byte %8.0g NH Black xmlat byte %8.0g Hispanic xmasian byte %8.0g NH Asian xmraceall byte %8.0g Race xmimm byte %8.0g Mom Immigrant xmage byte %8.0g Mother's Age xmedua byte %8.0g 0 to 8 years xmedub byte %8.0g 9 to 11 years xmeduc byte %8.0g 12 years xmedud byte %8.0g 13 to 15 years xmedue byte %8.0g 16 years and over education byte %8.0g Education categories schooling byte %8.0g Years of schooling xmmar byte %8.0g Married cpbirth byte %8.0g Category of Preterm birth northeast byte %8.0g Northeast region midwest byte %8.0g Midwest region south byte %8.0g South region west byte %8.0g West region region byte %8.0g Category for region of US lesshighschool byte %8.0g Less than 12 years of schooling highschool byte %8.0g 12 years of schooling somecollege byte %8.0g 13-15 years of schooling college byte %8.0g 16+ years of schooling xmmarmiss byte %8.0g Married missing misspbirth byte %8.0g Pretrem birth missing dmsmomiss byte %8.0g Smoking missing xmracemiss byte %8.0g Race Missing xmimmracem byte %8.0g Race/Immigrant Status miss. xmedumiss byte %8.0g Education miss. cohort98 byte %8.0g 1998 Birth-Death Cohort cohort99 byte %8.0g 1999 Birth-Death Cohort cohort00 byte %8.0g 2000 Birth-Death Cohort cohort01 byte %8.0g 2001 Birth-Death Cohort cohort02 byte %8.0g 2002 Birth-Death Cohort _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Original analyses were run using Stata 15.0/SE (Special Edition) Run do files make_ABjuly2018.do recode_varsjuly2018.do (run by make_ABjuly2018.do) AB_Summary_Statistics_Finaljuly2018.do (run by make_ABjuly.do) regABjuly2018.do _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ make_ABjuly2018.do: creates analytic file AND generates summary statistics - creates log file make_ABjuly2018.txt - reads raw data (linkcoYYYYus_den.dta where YYYY = 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) - repeatedly runs recode_varsjuly2018.dta - creates one analytic file: make_AB_Infant_Mortality_allyears.dta - runs AB_Summary_Statistics_Finaljuly2018.do on data contained in make_AB_Infant_Mortality_allyears.dta - summary statistics generated and stored in text file make_AB_Summary_Statistics_Finaljuly2018.txt recode_varsjuly2018.do (run by make_ABjuly2018.do) - generates variables that will be used during analysis AB_Summary_Statistics_Finaljuly2018.do (run by make_ABjuly2018.do) - generates summary statistics regAB.do - estimates 24 regression models o 3 outcomes (neo, postneo, infant) o 4 race/ethnicities (xmwhite, xmblack, xmlat, xmasian) o 2 models (base, full) - coefficients stored in xml files, one for each outcome (neo.xml, postneo.xml, infant.xml) - individual graph generated for each outcome-race pair (full model), stored as OUTCOME_RACE_full,pdf - one combined graph generated for each model, stored as OUTCOME_4graphs.pdf